GENERAL

FOR ATTENDEES

Seminar

Semantic Metadata: A Tale of Two Types of VocabulariesSaturday, October 27, 2012, Half Day 1:30pm-5:30pm (seminar fee)

Semantic metadata is metadata that is expressed using a standard syntax that can be commonly processed by applications and tools. There is always an implied statement in any description or "classification" of an object, for example, <News Item><Topic><US Presidential Election 2012>. This is a subject-predicate-object triple, or more specifically, a class-attribute-value triple. The first two elements of the triple – class, attribute – are metadata elements with a defined semantic relationship. The third element is a value, from a controlled vocabulary. This seminar will focus on:

The two types of vocabularies involved with semantic metadata, the class-attribute vocabulary, and the value vocabulary. Examples of standard metadata vocabularies such as Dublin Core and FOAF, and canonical lists of named entities (people, organizations, places, events and things) especially well-branded names such as products and services will be shown.

Standards and tools for vocabulary management. Examples of standards such as RDF and SKOS, and vocabulary management tools that work with RDF and SKOS such as Protégé and ThManager.

How the two types of vocabularies are enabling the growth of the linked data cloud, and what this means for online business, publishers and consumers.

InstructorJoseph Buschis the Founder and Principal Consultant of Taxonomy Strategies. Taxonomy Strategies guides global companies, government agencies, international organizations and not-for-profits such as Nike, Oracle, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the International Monetary Fund and Harvard Business Publishing in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. We provide a very high level of expertise to our clients. Before founding Taxonomy Strategies, Joseph Busch held management positions at Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information Institute and PriceWaterhouse. He is a Past President of the Association for Information Science and Technology
(www.asis.org), and past member of the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
(dublincore.org).